Gain powerful insights into how to live your life more successfully, with
less fear and more joy.

Have many opportunities to learn how to avoid
the pitfalls that often accompany a relationship choice outside the norm.

Meet and connect with, through both
educational and social activities, others like yourself who choose to set
their own rules and configure their intimate relationships in
nontraditional, but healthy ways

Meet your most important needs for information,
techniques, and ideas that will make it easier to explore and practice intimate relationships
of your choice, whatever form they take, by custom designing a set of sessions, featuring speakers of the highest
quality (see below for examples).

Enjoy opportunities to interact and network personally with members of various nontraditional communities to share experiences, discover common ground, and learn from
each other. Every community has something to teach; every
community has something
to learn! We are all one tribe!

Thanks to a generous grant from the
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in San Francisco, we have
awarded several scholarships to GLBT activists to attend Building Bridges 2006 in
Seattle. The scholarships provide full Conference attendance, but do not
include the cost of any optional events, travel, non-Conference meals, or
lodging. We deeply appreciate the support from the Sisters!

Who will benefit by attending
this Conference?

Polyamorists

Swingers

GLBT persons in either sexually-exclusive
or non-exclusive relationships

Professionals who desire continuing education credit - therapists, counselors, other helping professionals - and who
work with clients who live in nontraditional relationships or who practice alternative modes of sexual expression

Social change activists and
anyone supportive of the right
of adults to choose intimate lifestyles or use domination phonesex & chat on a regular basis such as the above without
governmental, social, or religious interference, prejudice or favoritism.

Practicalities, Emotional Intelligence and
Communication: The special emotional, psychological, and communications
aspects of engaging in nontraditional relationships in a culture without
models and guidelines for doing so successfully - jealousy management,
gender roles, communications skills, etc., and the “meat and potatoes” issues that affect living any form of nontraditional lifestyle in a repressive, conformist, and sex-negative society - coming out, raising children, legalities, avoiding
discrimination in the workplace, etc..

Activism and Change-Making: Thanks in no small
part to the ascendance of religious extremists, your right to the relationship/orientation/mode of sexual
expression of your choice is under increasing attack. Though many choose to try to ignore the
threat, or live their nontraditional life "in the closet" or "under the radar," every passing
day makes such a course more dangerous and less likely to guarantee your job, your custody of your
children, or your freedom from arrest and trial for your "deviant" practices. These sessions help attendees understand how
culture and social forces affect your private life and what can and should be done to protect and
advance our right to configure our lives and our intimate relationships as we choose.

Cross-Community Awareness: Introducing
various communities to others, emphasizing similarities while identifying
differences; also sessions intending to raise awareness within the various
communities by challenging internalized assumptions, bridging language/terminology gaps, etc.

Professionals/Continuing Education:Deeper,
more intellectually rigorous programming aimed at the needs and interests of
professionals engaged in counseling, therapy, research, legal, academic, or
other professional pursuits involving nontraditional relationship forms and
those who participate in them.

Lighter Fare - Experiential Programming and Relationship Enhancement Tips and Techniques: A track devoted to some of the
lighter and more fun aspects of life that nontraditional relationships especially can foster,
or which benefit from the more open, experimental, and adventurous attitudes frequently found
among participants in nontraditional relationships. Experiential workshops, demonstrations, and
similar offerings around enhancing sexuality and sensuality; entertaining or personal development
presentations of a lighter nature, etc.

The Red Lion Bellevue Inn is a full-service hotel with 181 guest rooms decorated in a
boutique-style with over-stuffed pillows, comforters and maple
furnishings. In-room amenities include remote control televisions with over 50
stations including ESPN and CNN, pay-per-view movies, Nintendo®,
two-line telephones with dataports, voicemail and free Net4Guests
high-speed wireless Internet access available in all rooms and meeting
space. Other amenities include a state-of-the-art business center,
fully-equipped fitness center, seasonal outdoor pool, Hertz car rental
office and complimentary parking.

To make your reservations, call 425-455-5240.
Our cutoff date for reservations at our discounted rate of just $105/night is September
21, 2006. You must identify yourself as a participant in the
ITCR Building Bridges Conference when you reserve. PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER VIA THE HOTEL WEB PAGE
LINK ABOVE - IT WILL NOT RECOGNIZE YOU AS A
BUILDING BRIDGES PARTICIPANT NOR CREDIT US FOR YOUR REGISTRATION. THANKS!

Please note: When our Conference attendees stay at
other hotels, or don't reserve their rooms in the Conference hotel by the cutoff
date, it actually costs ITCR in several expensive ways! Please support
ITCR and help keep our Conference registration fees reasonable by securing
accommodations at the headquarters hotel. Thanks!